A charming, mysterious young man arrives in the sleepy Quebec village of Pontiac, scatters gold and lets it be known that he is the son of Napoleon. The villagers, from the curé and the notary to the bitter dwarf Parpon, are swept into his dream of a new empire, and Parker follows the spell he casts and the price it exacts.
The novel Parker himself called a historical fantasy, a tender, ironic tale of illusion. Download the free EPUB.
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